Five of Maxwell's Papers
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Five of Maxwell's Papers includes 5 papers or speeches by James Clerk Maxwell. The contents list Foramen Centrale, Theory of Compound Colours, Poinsot's Theory, Address to the Mathematical, Introductory Lecture and On the Unequal Sensibility of the Foramen Centrale to Light of different Colours. A writer observing the spectrum formed by looking at a long vertical slit through a simple prism noticed an elongated dark spot running up and down in the blue. The writer concludes that the appearance is due to the yellow spot on the retina, commonly called the Foramen Centrale.
The text reports experiments on the mixture of blue and yellow light, and says that in all these cases blue and yellow do not make green. The text speaks of cases in which two different explanations have been given of the same thing, and names the corpuscular and the undulatory theories of light as the most celebrated case of this kind.
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- James Clerk Maxwell
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- 34
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